Halo Legends Posters Feature Teddy Bears and Flowers
July 28, 2009 61 Comments
You saw the first screenshots. You watched the debut trailer. Now it’s time to dig just a little bit deeper into Halo: Legends by checking out some posters from each of the studios working on this particular project. Maybe the images will make you significantly more excited about this upcoming seven-part Halo-themed anime series. Perhaps your deepest and darkest fears will be confirmed and then some. Regardless, hopefully you have a penchant for teddy bears and flowers otherwise you probably shouldn’t go any farther. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.
Source [Kotaku]
Huh. . . Interesting. I won’t say “good” just yet though. . .
I don’t know who I feel about a Halo Anime. I like Animes and I like Halo. . . But. . . Together? Time will tell.
MOAR cortana hentai plz…
haha master chief’s leet
well, the size of that, i wanna say brute, is a little large… not to be nit picky, but maybe, just maybe a little too large. anyone else agree?
and does that last poster even look like a human could be in that armor? i mean, everything’s just so out of proportion.
i really liked the first one but it went down hill from there for me. i am really turned off by the whole notion in my honest opinion. anime ftl… =/
And since when is anything in anime proportional lol. I mean in general, the eyes/head in general is far out of proportion realistically in most anime.
So far it all looks good. The elite-centered short looks to be a bit more artsy, the giant-brute one looks like it could be on the lighter/funnier/satirical side, and the chief/cortana one looks the most story-driven to me.
Yeah that Brute and “1337″ Spartan are part of TOEI’s non canon movie.
I was thinking the Elite on is the Arbiter, following him after the events in Halo 3, probably he returns to his homeworld. then the Spartan in CQB armor could be Maria which is a Spartan-II that retiered, and had a family, that could be her going back to action and the hand with the teaddy bear could be her daughter with a gift she gives to her before she leaves
i was going to comment on the LEET bit too… i guess it also supports the ‘funny’ theory above
The last screenshot is creepier to me than the eyes. Like who is directing this? Peter jacksons mom?
Master chief has 1337 on his armour :D
That’s not MC.
I pointed that out before… T.T
All I can say is …
Shoop da woop anyone?
The first pic is not a brute. Brutes have a Mohawk and looks like an ape. That thing has a hairy head and doesn’t resemble an ape. The last poster Spartan is oddly out of shape.
I’m really looking forward to these animes. I think its a great thing that they’re really starting to branch out, I believe that this is the current generation’s version of my Star Wars. Should be interesting.
They acctually look suprisingly good…apart from the last one, the TOEI one is OK if its not cannon…
This will ether be, The BEST thing ever, or the worse.
Maybe it’s just my own warped mind, but the last pic looks like the teddy bear could be replaced by a cod-piece monster. The hand positioning is just too perfect for photo shop pron!
See how the charm’s string points right back to the spartan junk?
Yea I thought she was holding a MC doll by the leg or something.
Hmm. It looks … interesting. I know I’ll probably buy the DVD anyway, but it looks a little different than I expected it would.
I freaking hate that pose the guy has on the far left of the third poster. Seems to be in every anime I’ve ever seen.
Im pretty sure I fought one of those things (in the first poster) in the last zelda game… or maybe beast sonic is making a cameo.
5 bucks that they are going to add some random scene of Cortana getting raped by Gravemind
I like the way almost everyone gave this. Comment a ‘thumbs up’!!!!111111!!one!!!1111eleven!
hehe, the one with the arbiter reminds me of powerrangers
on the left you have his armor wearing version (morphed) and on the right you have him wearing his every day striped sweat shirt with popped white collar (because he is so hip and cool when he is not the arbiter)
I honestly don’t feel like this is going to a great anime. I’m a fan of both, myself, but not together. It seems like it’s going to be more like Gundam Wing if anything. I mean the second poster looks like a mobile suit Gundam. I might like it if it ends up looking like the same art as Zoids or something like that. But this.. This isn’t Halo.
these actually look pretty damn cool… the last anime I watched was DBZ….
This will be the second one i have ever watched. Not into that stuff unless a great/excellent storyline can be provided.
Halo hasn’t disappointed me too much.
(btw, Code Geass was incredible)
Despite the flowers and bear key chains, I still think Halo Legends looks sexy…
That first poster has Mamoru Ishii written all over it. Cortana looks more than a little bit like Motoko Kusanagi from Ishii’s Ghost in the Shell (the movie, not the series). If it is Ishii directing that segment, then it will probably be worth the price by itself, and comparing it to what I’ve read so far, that first poster represents the “Origins” two parter, which I’m looking forward to more than any of them. The Spartan/ODST rivalry one should be pretty cool, as well.
I also read the Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo), is directing a couple of the segments, so despite some of the depictions and artistic interpretations we see here, the stories should at least be pretty good/entertaining.
All i can say about the 1st image is: nom nom nom.
Some of these could be quite good (touch wood).
I think the 1337 chief one is probably a noobs point of view. At the end he defeats the brute while duel wielding Spartan lasers and bungie floats down from the heavens to give him recon armour, only to see he’s to cool and make it flaming recon. At least that what I think.
Anyway can’t wait to buy them :D
The third one looks like the DVD cover for a really bad ‘military-themed’ porno.
The final one… well. Itz teh flowers. And the teddy bears. And androgynous Spartans with no sexual features whatsoever. *sighs* why oh why, MS?
Anime Cortana is not too bad. There may be some hope after all.
It seems to me there is a lot of different talents applying themselves to this anime production. Even the trailer looks like a montage of work done by variouls artists’ styles, almost reminded me of the animatrix project.
My hopes are high.
Jet pack Master Chief, total and complete sweetness!
How could that possibly get any better? How about Spartans forming into a giant super robot wielding a blazing sword with gratuitously cinematic displays of ridiculous special attack moves used to defeat master chief’s enemies.
OH MY GOD!!! Teddy bears!! get it off me, get it off me GET IT OFF!! Mk skull, it’s tengeling in a way it never has before!
I think Halo Legends takes place after Halo 3 as there is a picture of a Spartan with the number 337 on it, this could mean more Spartans have been created and the UNSC is trying to kill any surviving covenant. It could also explain why there is a picture of a Spartan with CQB armour.
That’s “1337″. It’s for laughs.
That one is non-canon.
Booo.
:’(
That third poster reminded me of Blue Team from RvB.. Well, more Luke McKay’s cartoon versions of the characters.
http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/artoflukemckay.html
It sort of looks like (left to right): Church, Tex (crouching), Caboose, Tucker.
I suppose it would be a better resemblance if it don’t look like “Church” and “Caboose” have switched attitudes and “Tex” looked a bit more female.
Just imagine “Church” looking annoyed and “Caboose” looking less tough and squint a bit, they could pass as Blue Team.
And the 4th poster…. erm….
What I don’t understand is how people most of these people can’t get there heads around the fact that its is entirely possible that a civilian girl in the Halo universe owns a teddy bear. And *GASP!*, so could a Spartan when they were younger. Frankie himself stated on HBO that particular story is a drama depicted the Spartans coming to terms with what happened to them when they were younger (abduction, flash cloning, ect…). At the end of the day Spartans are humans too, and if Frankie is to be believed, those of us who don’t subscribe to the “Anime = ghey poekmen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” crowd will all be in tears by the end of that particular story. Having a heart will help too I suppose, heh.
It’s by the same folks that did Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex. I’m looking forward to this one the most for that reason alone.
Mamoru Oshii :)
Remember the episode that focused around the Major’s watch? That was one of my favorites.
After thinking about it, GitS used a lot of objects to convey meaning through their stories. Remember the episode with the renegade tank? The hyjacker had a model of that tank growing up. Or when Togusa infiltrated that school for developmentally challenged youngsters, and the role the Laughing Man’s baseball mit played? This all made for some VERY powerful story telling.
This shit’s going to be hot, kids. Just you wait. :)
This.
I’m interested to see how this turns out… hope its good ^_^
Cringy. To me, Halo and anime go together like sand and bathing suits.
Am I the only one who thinks this is just a money-grab?
We want an online H1, we get movie news (and cancellation). We want more varied options in future Halo games, we get anime.
I personally don’t have any interest in this. I believe they should invest their money in developing a better game.
But, hey, if you like it, I’m not gunna knock it for ya.
there would be a “token” black guy wouldnt there ¬_¬
Wow, the brute looks like he’s firing his lazar.
The Cortana short should be interesting though. Anime is known for their cute chicks. (wink-wink)
Maybe I’ll rent it off XBL in shame.
The.. I guess Brute looks nothing like.. well a brute! and is overly huge and emh… wtf flowers and teddy bear? and the space suit one… one word… Gundam.
Ugh. Where to begin. As I am constantly fist-shakingly ranting about, all too many wonderful franchises are ruined by over-milking. In fact, wasn’t it Frank O’ Conner who compared the Halo franchise to Lucas and the Star Wars franchise?! A Halo channel and short anime series is all well and good, but don’t look at me when come 2019 we have a fully CG Halo cartoon series thats puts the entire series to shame. *cough Clone Wars cough*
Anime is cool and so is halo but together is such a money grab, i’m on the fence still
*face palm*
I do not know how this will turn out yet…. but I love the music. It’s like they took Marty’s music and gave it a subtle calming feeling.
FALCON PUNCH!!!! I couldn’t resist… also Cortana is still hawt :P
Blindsided
>.<
I don’t understand why people dislike this idea… and some go as far as to criticize it.
There is no real way to draw anime… most are unrealistic as hell. Don’t go saying that ‘ooh, that Brute looks nothing like a Brute’ because that was an adaptation from one of the anime companies. It’s anime, and it’s Halo. Is that a hard concept to mix the two?
I have high hopes for this. This seems to look promising, since it is Halo. Everything Halo has worked out so far, so I don’t see how this is any different.
Since when is master chief a gundam?